Staff Engineer - Developer Productivity

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. They are seeking a Staff Engineer – Developer Productivity to enhance the developer experience and improve engineering velocity across a large organization by leading the evolution of build and deployment systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end developer experience across build, test, and deployment systems for a large engineering organization
• Lead the evolution of a large JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo used by 50+ engineers
• Reduce build and CI times through tooling, caching, and architectural improvements
• Implement and scale modern monorepo tooling (e.g., TurboRepo, Bazel, Nx)
• Improve testing infrastructure, visibility, and reliability across multiple engineering teams
• Design systems to improve developer iteration speed and reduce cross-team blocking dependencies
• Own observability and operational excellence across build/test/deploy pipelines
• Support multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure used in production systems
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to identify friction points in development workflows
• Drive engineering-wide standards for code quality, testing, and release processes
• Act as a force multiplier for engineering productivity across the org

Requirements:

• 8–15 years of experience in backend or developer productivity engineering
• Strong experience in developer tooling, build systems, or monorepo infrastructure
• Experience working in engineering organizations scaling from ~40 to 100+ engineers
• Deep expertise in TypeScript / JavaScript ecosystems
• Strong systems design fundamentals and understanding of distributed system behavior
• Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build performance, or developer workflows
• Experience implementing or scaling tools like TurboRepo, Bazel, or Nx
• Strong CS fundamentals (degree in CS/CE preferred from top universities)
• Experience at high-growth startups or top-tier engineering organizations
• Experience at companies like Vercel, Stripe, Databricks, Plaid, Ironclad, etc
• Background in developer platforms, build systems, or internal tooling teams
• Experience working on multi-cloud or multi-region distributed systems
• Exposure to event-driven architectures or large-scale backend systems
• Prior experience owning engineering productivity across multiple teams
• Strong ability to influence engineering culture and technical direction